Jo Brand Quotes
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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I think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
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In some cases, it's not just about cleaning up the factories. It's about cleaning up the nearby rivers and lakes that have been tainted with heavy metals.
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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
